Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mary Oliver

Though I play at the edges of knowing, truly I know our part is not knowing, but looking, and touching, and loving

Mary Oliver

I simply do not distinguish between work and play.

Mary Chapin Carpenter

I feel that it's nothing if not an incredible privilege to be able to get up on stage and play for people, and I don't ever take it for granted.

Marty Turco

Someone who plays hard every shift, it's pretty admirable for a young guy.

Martina Navratilova

All top players are the same strokewise, but mentally I can improve and that's where it's at for top players.

Martina Navratilova

I know some of my self-worth comes from tennis, and it's hard to think of doing something else where you know you'll never be thebest. Tennis players are rare creatures: where else in the world can you know that you're the best? The definitiveness of it is the beauty of it, but it's not all there is to life and I'm ready to explore the alternatives.

Martin Amis

When you’ve lost all your play, guess what love becomes. Work. Work that gets harder every hour.

Mark Rylance

And people do enjoy the plays at completely different levels. And, likewise, they enjoy the authorship question... at completely different levels.

Pinetop Perkins

I can't play piano like I used to either. I used to have bass rolling like thunder. I can't do that no more. But I ask the Lord, please forgive me for the stuff I done trying to make a nickel.

Pinetop Perkins

I taught myself off records, Memphis Slim, them old piano players, then added to it. Yeah, hard and loud, beat it to pieces.

Pierre Berbizier

If you can't take a punch, you should play table tennis.

Pierre Corneille

He who plays advisor is no longer ambassador.

Philippe Falardeau

In the province of Quebec where I come from, we speak French and the only cosmopolitan city is Montreal. Every time we tackle the subject of immigration and racial tension, it's an issue that concerns Montreal. Also, in Quebec, we have this added issue that we want people to speak French, because French is always on the verge of disappearing to some extent. I work, play and do everything in French.

Philippe Falardeau

I work, play and do everything in French.

Philip Rivers

I've already developed trust in my teammates -as a player and as a person.

Philip Rivers

Anybody who has watched me play knows I'm not one of the fastest guys, but I understand what's going on around me and what to look for. I know what the defense is doing.

Rachel Bilson

Love shouldn't play by the rules. It's all about chemistry.

Rachel Caine

You want to go play with your new friends back there? The really pale ones with the taste for plasma? --Shane

Peter Ackroyd

The 16th-century theatre witnessed the particularly English manifestation of 'the history play.' There can be no doubt that Shakespeare's presentations of 'Henry V' and 'Richard III' have been incalculably more influential than any more sober historical study.

Pete Townshend

Pick up my guitar and play, just like yesterday / And I get on my knees and pray.

Pete Townshend

Any fool can hide, few can play.

Pete Seeger

When you play the 12-string guitar,you spend half your life tuning the instrument and the other half playing it out of tune.

Pete Carroll

I would say that we have to explore and find ways to make our game a better game and take care of our players in whatever way possible. Regardless of what other stigmas might be involved, we have to do this because the world of medicine is doing this.

Pete Carroll

I'm telling you what I'm telling you. I will go wherever I have to go, listen to whoever I have to listen to. Whether it's a player or it's a coach. Whether it's a corporate leader, a political leader or it's the guy sitting on the corner. It doesn't matter to me; I'm on, I'll go wherever.

Pete Carroll

Troy Polamalu was a fascinating player, and that made him.

Pete Carroll

So, regardless of what they do, we have to play like we’re capable of playing. That’s a greater challenge in itself, but that’s really what we’re after.

Phil Simms

I criticize a lot of players and coaches. But I back it up with facts. A lot of times guys get mad at me because someone told them what I said. I say, 'You're wrong: Go check the tape.

Phil Taylor

It's unbelievable to have come through a field of 64 of the best players I've seen for a long time.

Phil Mickelson

I try to respect everybody out here: players, caddies, fans, media.

Peter Shaffer

Rehearsing a play is making the word flesh. Publishing a play is reversing the process.

Peter Steele

I don't really like to play live. I don't like to be on stage. I feel very self-conscious.

Peter Marshall

Get off, you look ugly (to a blood splattered player during a game)

Quincy Jones

I chose the trombone because the trombone players in the marching band got to be up front with the majorettes (because of the slides) and I loved that!